"required" fields appearance?

[erick013]

By default when you enable "require" for a field it puts a red border around the field. Is there a way to remove it?  You would think that it would just make the appearance of the field "red" (instead of blue) without a border. Can I shut the border off without getting into any sort of scripting?  I can't image Adobe not including this simple option. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

[George_Johnson]

You can change it for yourself by setting the color in the form preferences, but you can't use scripting to change it. If you want more control, you'll have to use scripting which allows you to set whatever field background/border color you want.

[erick013]

If I uncheck that box in the preferences then you don't see any of the highlighted fields. I would just like the "required" fields to be highlighted in red instead of blue with NO outline for either.  How would I go about  accomplishing this? Do I need a plug-in/extension to makes this happen easily?

[try67]

As George said, it can only be done manually, unless you use a script to set your own fill/stroke color, independently of the application's built-in function that does that (which you should probably disable in that case, so it won't interfere with your own colors).

[erick013]

Sorry to ask but is there a resource you can refer me to where this has been done?  Would love to give it a go but I'm haven't attempted any sort of scripting for Acrobat. Thx.